“At this time, NASA has decided not to acquire access to a single enterprise data center (nor any additional data centers anywhere else, due to the existing inventory of data centers currently available,” NASA stated on the I3P homepage. “NASA has no need to acquire dedicated data center consolidation services because consolidation issues and actions are being executed by center personnel through their existing support contractors.”

Under the latest deal, the Portal Group, a small business, will install and operate hardware, software and provide support services as well as develop or acquire and implement new services or enhancements to existing systems primarily at NASA headquarters in Washington.

NASA also wants the company provide support and services to agency websites, infrastructure support, bandwidth provisioning and security, search and collaboration services.